Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings, cash pile of $157B

Re:Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings... by s1artibartfast on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:07PM (#38169024)

I was coming at it from the angle of making positive long term investments (E.g. Growing the pie), opposed to simply shifting money and who gets services.

Most of the reasons why there is low housing, Healthcare, or food isn't due to lack of capital investment.

If you ask something like why isn't Healthcare cheap and abundant, it isn't because nobody can make money and isn't due to lack of investment.

If you give everyone, $1000 to go to the doctor, guess what, doctors prices will just go up $1000.

The only thing that really makes a difference is expanding supply.

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Re:Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings... by Obscurity4340 on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:20PM (#38170656)

Like students who can get into medical school should have that covered if they agree to render their services for a time.

Its absolutely asinine that everything is so high-stakes where you may very well end-up with 10s-100s of thousands of dollars with no material benefit and we also expect people to pull the full weight of preparing them to hopefully one day help that same public. Like the whole current configuration needs to get fucked and get someone to radically restructure so irs not so stupid and debillitating.

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Re:Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings... by Obscurity4340 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:13PM (#38198611)

Can I ask you to evaluate the validity of that which I mentioned here? I don't see how all of this isn't elementary in the obviousness of its palpabillity and therefore, it agreeableness in some sense...(?)

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